Forgejo forks its own path forward
Forgejo forks its own path forward
This is from last month, but I haven't seen any discussion of it. Seems like Forgejo is now a hard fork of Gitea, instead of being a soft fork like it was over the previous year.
The main reason I'm posting it now is this: "As such, if you were considering upgrading to Forgejo, we encourage you to do that sooner rather than later, because as the projects naturally diverge further, doing so will become ever harder. It will not happen overnight, it may not even happen soon, but eventually, Forgejo will stop being a drop-in replacement."
So, why Forgejo over Gitea? I've been pretty happy with Gitea.
Because gitea is fully the victim of corporate capture. Any PRs that make gitea better in a way that would reduce the main corporate “sponsor” profit are rejected.
The company has a conflict of interest with the community and it shows. Forgejo is sponsored by a non profit open source cooperative.
afaik they are planning on adding federation support eventually, which would be really neat for collaboration
What's the latest on Forgejo's Windows builds? Last I checked there was no Windows build due to no volunteers for build/test - Gitea's old build stuff should still be good.
Which is a mild shame because Gitea's Windows version was an insanely simple way to run it if you are a solo dev on Windows and need a private Git site. Drop the binary on an USB hard drive, run it on terminal, boom, done.
(Currently contemplating just setting up a Raspberry Pi server.)
It's just as easy to run in a Docker container and I would recommend this anyway.
Heh, your comment actually made me finally go and resolve a problem I've had since I got this laptop in 2020. I didn't have SVM virtualisation acceleration enabled because that made Windows unable to boot somehow. A bit of twiddling after, it finally did! VirtualBox runs! Docker runs!
...but why would I use Docker for something like this. Might as well blow the dust off of my FreeBSD virtual machine and run Forgejo there!
Docker is lighter and easier to manage than a VM. I run a collection of services as docker compose services inside a NixOS host VM. It's easy to start, stop, monitor, update etc. even from a different computer (via ssh or docker contexts). It's great.